Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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THE ASHBURIAN 21 arrangements. Those who attended were: Brown, Bow, Cjreenstone. Ekes, Bethune, Tyler, Podhradsky, Menzies. A highlight of our travel was two flat tires on one of our cars, with the subsequent presentation of a new car to Mr. Marland. 3. .lliscellaneozzs As usual in the Winter Term, some of the Senior students attended many of the Saturday morning series at the University of Ottawa. Many of these were entertaining as well as instructive. Due to the pressure of College Boards, our Montreal tour once again had to be abandoned. DEBATING AND PUBLIC SPEAKING Coach-Mr. Spencer Team -Kenneth Menzies QCaptainJ Hugh Campbell Geoff Barber Anthony Ivey Hector Ewing Peter Stein I james McAulayl Harris Stein II Adrian Sark In spite of all the practice at arguing we get at Ashbury, the Debat- ing Team had only a mediocre year. This can probably be attributed to the loss of Haslam and Ewing from last year, who were seasoned debators. In February Ashbury competed in the International Speech Festival at Toronto sponsored by St. Michaels College of Toronto University. The resolution was Resolved that Britain should Qoin the European Common Market . Kenneth Menzies and Hugh Campbell had the aflirmative and Anthony Ivey and Peter Stein the negative. Each team debated three times but Ivey and Stein I scored the only win. There were also public speaking contests. Kenneth Menzies gave a prepared speech on Malaysia. Stein Il gave an impromptu speech. ln addition Hugh Campbell recited and gave an appreciation of a speech by D'Arcy McGee. Although we did not win, we all learned a great deal about the art of speaking of which we had not previously realised the complexities. In March Hector Ewing and Geoifrey Barber took the afiirmative of Resolved that Canada should obtain nuclear arms , while james McAulav I and Adrian Sark took the negative. Ewing distinguished himself, 'being nominated best speaker in his two debates. QHowever

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212 THE ASHBURIAN SCIENCE NCTES 1. Visit to Natiomil Research C ozmcil On Monday, March -lth, we had our annual tour to the National Research Council. The morning was spent at Sussex Street. Our first Visit was to the Applied Biology section with Dr. D. Kushner and Dr. S. T. Bayley, who were doing research in Microbiology and Biophysics. VVe again were confronted with work being done on D.N.A. and examined many techniques concerned with Biophysics. Next we visited Dr. Maria Przybylska who was working on crystal structure of organic compounds, and Dr. J. B. GiGorgio who was engaged in Urganic Spectrochemistry. In this latter visit we walked into a spectroscope and examined many spectrographs. We then visted Dr. YV. C. johns in Pure Physics where we saw the fine electronmicroscope and its operation as Well as Laser. After a fine lunch we travelled to the Montreal Road Branch. Here we spent some time with Capt. H. R. Smyth who was concerned with automatic lights for lighthouses and transistorized fog horn signals. lYe then spent half an hour in Building Research and saw the Work being done on soils, Hre research, building construction, strength of materials, pavements and roadways. VVe then Went to the Applied Physics building where we were fascinated with Photogrammetry-the making of detailed topographical maps by means of photography, and the Electrical standards division with Dr. Dunn. Here we saw the end- less detail which was concerned with the standards for the volt and the ohm. At 4.30 we left and came back to School after a fascinating day. Our thanks are due to Dr. john R. Kohr and Mr. Mel Vlfard who organized the tour, and to Mr. Sibley who did the work for the School. Those who attended were: XYhipps, Brown, Bow, Cvreenstone, Ekes, Menzies, lValters, Bethune, Tyler and Smethurst. 2. Visit to C balk River On Thursday, March 28th we left early in the morning and arrived at the Atomic Energy of Canada plant at Chalk River at 10.30 a.m. llere Mr. Douglas Nichols met us, and before lunch we saw two excellent filsm on Atomic Energy. VVe also visited the models of NRX, NRC. the new atomic power models, and proposed new power plant. .-Xfter a good lunch we visited N.R.X. where our guides explained the process in detail and then we went on to see N.R.U. Here again the control rooms in both reactors fascinated us all with the safety devices which were used. Our thanks to Mr. Nichols, also to Mr. Marland and Mr. P. Clillean who were our chauiieurs, and to Mr. Sibley who made the

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19 THE ASHBURIAN onlv one of the tivo debates was vvonj. The debating year ended on a happy note. Nlenzies and Ewing defeated Lower Canada College at Xlontreal on the topic Resolved that Quebec should secede from the rest of Canada . s . . THE DEBATING TE.-XXI - 1962-63 Iiavk Rout A. j. Sark, P. C. Stein, J. R. Nlc.-Xulav, H. Stein. lfronr Roar: G. IJ. Barber. K. S. Menzies. I-. I. H. Spencer, Esq.. I-I. B. Ewing, A. D. Ivey. PUBLIC SPEAKING CONTEST The Intermediate and Senior Public Speaking Contest was held on Sunday, Xlav 12th. at 3 p.m. The first nice weekend of the Spring of 1963 did not prevent the three contestants in each division from present- ing the judge, Xlr. Ian Spencer, with a diiiicult task. james XIcAulev, the first Intermediate speaker, chose as his subject Hen and Religion . llis impressive beginning, . H